Salon.com > Condoleezza Rice http://www.salon.com Sun, 27 May 2012 13:20:45 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Baseless Condi Rice speculation making a comeback http://www.salon.com/2011/12/19/baseless_condi_rice_speculation_making_a_comeback/ http://www.salon.com/2011/12/19/baseless_condi_rice_speculation_making_a_comeback/#comments Mon, 19 Dec 2011 22:10:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=10658321 [UPDATED BELOW] Joseph Curl, former White House correspondent for the Washington Times, is bringing me back to the good old days of 2006 in his latest opinion column for the conservative paper. It's a breathless report that Condoleezza Rice will seek the vice presidency, and it's a classic of the genre.

Any amateur can speculate that Chris Christie will enter the presidential race, or posit a Mike Bloomberg third-party run, or imagine Hillary Clinton launching a primary challenge against Barack Obama. After all, those three have actually won elections and expressed political ambitions. It takes a real pro to decide to build buzz around someone who not only hasn't ever run for anything, but who's never expressed a desire to run for anything.

Rice, the national security advisor in George W. Bush's first presidential term and secretary of state in his second, is currently a professor at Stanford with the requisite right-wing think tank fellowship. She has not said or done anything "political" in years. But Curl has been hearing things!

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2011/12/19/baseless_condi_rice_speculation_making_a_comeback/feed/ 26 Moammar Gadhafi’s weird Condoleezza Rice video http://www.salon.com/2011/11/02/moammar_gadhafis_weird_condoleezza_rice_video/ http://www.salon.com/2011/11/02/moammar_gadhafis_weird_condoleezza_rice_video/#comments Wed, 02 Nov 2011 12:47:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=10160622 When Moammar Gadhafi was usurped earlier this year, much was made of a photo album, recovered from his compound by Libyan rebels, filled entirely with photographs of Condoleezza Rice. Though the Libyan strongman's infatuation with our former secretary of state was no secret, the discovery of a Condi scrapbook still struck many as totally bizarre. And it was only the tip of the iceberg.

During a visit to "The Daily Show" last night, Rice recounted her uncomfortable meeting with Gadhafi back in 2008, during which the dictator made very clear his admiration. In much the same way smitten high school students trade mix tapes to articulate their affections, the former dictator presented Rice with a video -- one that showed her meeting with various heads of state, scored to a song composed expressly for Rice.

The song's name? "Black Flower in the White House."

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